Three days after a rally in Kirkland Lake, Ont., the platform X was awash in hundreds of posts from individuals claiming they had returned reinvigorated
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks during a rally in Montreal, on June 19. The Conservatives say they have no connection to a rash of social media bots that flooded the X platform following a Pierre Poilievre event in northern Ontario last week.The Conservatives say they have no connection to a rash of conspicuously similar social-media posts that flooded the X platform following a Pierre Poilievre event in northern Ontario last week.
The posts came from accounts with less than five followers, many of which had joined the platform just this month. Very few listed a current location in Canada, and many had already been disabled by Tuesday morning. “The CPC does not pay for bots and has no idea who is behind these accounts,” Fischer said in a written statement. “We are seeking the support of actual Canadians, as witnessed by large in-person turnouts at our events.”is making a strong push to win seats in northern Ontario, including Timmins-James Bay, where Angus is not seeking re-election after representing the area for two decades. The Kirkland Lake stop was one of several Poilievre made on a northern Ontario tour in the last week of July.
The accounts she linked include posts calling for action on climate change, a complaint about unions, a love for pickle ball, a recent conversion to whole wheat bread and pasta, and elections and politics in Germany, Australia and Venezuela. “In this particular case, yeah, I would go on the record to say 100 per cent that they’re bots,” he said.
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